ShivaX
4552
Probably, though they stopped making them in America from what I gather. Of course most pans and shit are probably made in China any more, so you can pretty much assume they are using them still.
It’s generally not as safe to use non stick pans if the coating is scratched or failing. Some of the newer “green” pans, while not as good at not being sticky are safer.
Edit: side older data, it’s the heat more than the scratches :
Djscman
4554
I’m not a chemist, and so I’m not sure if they are actually including PFAS as part of the related and now unlimited chemical families of PFOA and PFOS, or if they are still trying to protect against PFAS contamination. But from what I hear, this PFAS stuff is a nightmare.
PFAS, do not want. We have been detecting GenX in the river waters here in NC for a few years, and the state and EPA is investigating and lawsuits/fines are flying. It’s come out in the last few days that one company has been IMPORTING IT from the Netherlands to “treat” it here, and it ends up in our watersheds.
Tim_N
4557
For those like me who don’t know much about how jet streams and polar vortexes work, here is a short explainer I found useful about how such horribly cold conditions in the US can be linked to climate change:
Nesrie
4558
Undoubtedly this new polar vortex attack will unleash fresh claims that global warming is a hoax. But this ridiculous notion can be quickly dispelled with a look at predicted temperature departures around the globe for early this week. The lobe of cold air over North America is far outweighed by areas elsewhere in the United States and worldwide that are warmer than normal.
Yeah so… my hyacinths are popping up… and it’s not even February yet. I hope we don’t get a late nasty freeze.
We should be cold and wet and freezing sometimes at night by now…
Well, then let’s shoot the stuff off into the vastness of space. QED.
CraigM
4560
Instead it’s 52 and sunny today.
Not complaining, though my wife certainly is!
We really only had a few days but below freezing overnight up here in the Willamete and Tualatin valleys. I think 4 days when there was serious frost on my car. Plenty of 40 and rainy, but it’s hit 50 the last 4-5 days.
Nesrie
4561
I just really don’t want to burn for 3 months this summer, so if we can get our winter back to normal and have a spring… that would be great.
CraigM
4562
Fair enough! Those 99° days with no A/C in August were… not fun.
Meanwhile here in London last night was the first time all winter that it dropped below 0 C.
ShivaX
4564
Wind Chill Warning
Northeast Iowa
cold wind chills of 40 to 60 below were occurring across the area as of 3 am this … WIND CHILL WARNING NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM CST THURSDAY … Until 10 AM CST Thursday …
46 mins ago – National Weather Service
It late December it was 55 and raining.
MikeJ
4566
In the absence of the sunflowers, the sea urchins they hunt are running amok, eating their way through the Pacific’s kelp forests. Kelp is a tagliatelle-like seaweed whose meter-tall fronds shelter vast communities of marine life. If they fall, an entire ecosystem will fall too, including several commercially important species like abalones, crabs, and countless fish.
Harvell’s team found that the sunflower’s decline coincided with abnormally strong heatwaves, and the higher temperatures rose above their usual levels, the more likely the stars were to disappear. Harvell suspects that warm waters could have either boosted the growth of whatever microbe is behind SSWD, or stressed the sunflowers, making them more susceptible to infections. “The warming didn’t necessarily trigger the outbreak, but I think it increased the impact of the disease,” Harvell says.
While the sea stars were disintegrating, on the other side of the world, two-thirds of the world’s population of saiga—a bulbous-nosed Asian antelope—dropped dead. They died without warning, in a few days, over an area the size of Florida. And it seems that they were killed by a normally harmless nasal bacterium that, thanks to an unprecedented spell of heat and humidity, infiltrated their bloodstreams and poisoned them.
It’s all the consequences that we have no clue about that are going to do the most damage.
jpinard
4567
In the land where bats are dying in biblical numbers due to the insane heat.
RichVR
4568
But, sadly, not certain old bats.
Are those pro-CO2 protestors in Australia? Or is it New Zealand?
I like the graph at least. It’s too bad they don’t have an accompanying one showing the temperature variations WITH CO2 influence.
Tim_N
4570
lol that idiot mispelled “Juliar” on his sign (Julia Gillard was PM).
Can someone please give that guy a pure stream of the CO2 he loves?
Well, they’re Australian flags…
